"Crisis Of The Image" Art Exhibition at New American Art Gallery * Curated by Phoebe Legere

"The Polish Rider" ~~ Larry Rivers

 

We’re delighted to invite you to Crisis of the Image, our upcoming exhibition Apr.1 - May 20 at Westbeth Art Center, New American Art Gallery #223, 55 Bethune Street, New York.

This presentation brings together the work of eighteen visionary artists whose practices we deeply admire—each offering a distinct perspective while engaging in a broader dialogue around the image in contemporary art.

Please join us for the reception April 1 from 6–8 PM.

We are also pleased to announce that the New American Art Gallery will launch on the Bloomberg Connects Arts and Culture app on April 1. For those in New York City, we warmly encourage you to join us in person. If you’re elsewhere, we invite you to explore the exhibition, along with highlights from our Permanent Collection, online via Bloomberg Connects.

It has been a true pleasure collaborating with the Bloomberg team on this project.

Pictured: (detail) Larry Rivers (1923–2002), The Polish Rider. Lithograph. Signed, dated, and numbered

Crisis of the Image April 1 - Curated by Phoebe Legere

Note: As our opening coincides with the first night of Passover, the evening will include a brief, optional Seder-inspired intervention.

Rather than a full ritual, this will take the form of a minimal, participatory gesture engaging themes of memory, liberation, and transmission. A small number of symbolic elements and a shared prompt will structure the moment.

Offered with care and respect for Jewish tradition, this intervention sits within the exhibition’s broader inquiry into image, narrative, and lived experience.

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PHOEBE LEGERE Celebrates Women's History Month With Four Dynamic Projects: GIRL POWER

 

Phoebe Legere Celebrates Women's Month with Art, Music, Film, and Public Programs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  There is no word for what Phoebe Legere is. There should be.  Painter. Rock composer. Filmmaker. Four-octave vocal powerhouse. All unleashed in one extraordinary talent. Phoebe Is celebrating Women’s History Month with four dynamic events:  GIRL POWER GIRL POWER erupts in sizzling rock guitar and multi-octave fire. Composed and performed by Legere, this fierce, cinematic anthem drops March 27, 2026 — riding the momentum of her recent Netflix song placement. Peter Beard Serengeti Gentlemen 1985 Original Print  Noise & Flesh: Crisis of the Image Noise & Flesh: Crisis of the Image confronts a cultural moment defined by collapse and saturation: a contracting art market, political disorientation, and images emptied of meaning by data, theory, and trend. Curated by Legere and presented by the Foundation for New American Art at Westbeth Art Center, the exhibition unites modern masters — Larry Rivers, Peter Beard, Alice Neel, Anthony Haden-Guest — with contemporary visionaries, seeking not escape, but illumination: a way forward through noise, toward flesh, soul, and the miracle of being human. Experience it at 55 Bethune Street, NYC, or worldwide on Bloomberg Connects beginning April 1. Gender Symphony Born from a 2023 residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy, this award-winning experimental film is a fearless collision of Hegelian philosophy, Commedia dell'Arte, feminist politics, and pure avant-garde fire. Performed on the streets of Venice in costumes crafted from canal detritus, it tears through gender roles, fluidity, and power dynamics — driven by Legere's original score spanning Brechtian cabaret, avant-electronica, dubstep, and death metal. Hand-drawn and 3D animation weave through a living, breathing symphony of fluid identity and rebellion. Winner of Best Art Film at Cannes Arts Fest, Best Story at the LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Gold Winner at the Paris Film Awards, and celebrated at festivals from Tokyo to Athens to Berlin — Gender Symphony screens March 8 at the Every Woman Biennial, Pen + Brush, 29 East 22nd Street, NYC. Public Arts Programs Legere brings music, art, and performance directly to the children and families who need it most. These free multilingual workshops serve underserved, unresourced, and underrepresented communities — offering world-class creative education with the same fearless spirit that drives all of Legere's work. Mondays & Thursdays 3:30–5:30 PM at Theater for the New City, NYC Saturdays 1–2:30 PM at T Building, Painting Studio 4, Queens This is what it looks like when an artist gives everything — to the canvas, the stage, the screen, the street, and the next generation.   EVENT SUMMARY Noise & Flesh: Crisis of the Image — Opening April 1 | Westbeth Art Center, 55 Bethune St., NYC | Also on Bloomberg Connects New American Art Wednesdays — Artist salon hosted by Phoebe Legere | Wednesdays 7–9 PM through May 20 Film Screening: Gender Symphony — March 8 | Every Woman Biennial | Pen + Brush, 29 East 22nd Street, NYC Girl Power — Single Release — March 27, 2026 Public Arts Programs — Free bilingual/trilingual classes | Theater for the New City, NYC & T Building, Queens MEDIA CONTACT Charles Richard Info@Foundationfornewamericanart.org 2127777052

STONEWALL INN * NEW YORK STORIES * FEATURES PHOEBE LEGERE * Wednesday, February 18

Don't miss Nora Burns' curated 

NEW YORK STORIES at 

STONEWALL INN, 

Wednesday, February18 at 7 pm

WITH  PHOEBE LEGERE

 

New American Art Partners With Theater for The New City to Offer After-School Arts Education Program

Do you know ay children ages 8-12 who would like to take free art/music/dance/theater classes? The arts education nonprofit, New American Art in partnership with Theater for the New City is offering an 18-week after-school event beginning Feb. 23 in NYC's East Village. 

Founder & Executive Director of New Amaerican Art invites all interested to learn more about the bilingual program and/or register a child, to contact: info@foundationfornewamericanart.org.

A generous grant from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and their CreateNYC Language Access Fund have made this bilingual program possible!

Multidisciplinary Artist & Philanthropist Phoebe Legere To Host Love N' Courage Benefit Honoring Estelle Parsons

Come join Host Phoebe Legere and Executive Director of Theater for the New City Crystal Field as they honor Estelle Parsons at the 23rd Annual Love N' Courage Valentine's Day Benefit for Theater for the new City's Emerging Playwrights Program! 

Purchase tickets to TNC's Love N' Courage Benefit

Join us at The Players on February 17 2026 in support of Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program.

Visit https://theaterforthenewcity.net/donations/tncs-love-n-courage-benefit-2-2/

to purchase tickets. 

Phoebe Legere at Her Gallery ShowOpening, Downtown NYC, 128 Rivington Street

TWO PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING OF PHOEBE 

LEGERE'S NEW GALLERY SHOW:

LIPSTICK 1.     AND.      LIPSTICK 2 

(learn more at phoebelegere.com)

LEARN MORE ABOUT PHOEBE ' S ART AT PhoebeLegere.com

Join Us For Phoebe Legere's New Gallery Show * NYC

Join us for the opening of 

Phoebe Legere's new gallery show at 

Gallery 128.

Wednesday, December 17th, 

128 Rivington Street. 

The reception begins at 4 pm. 

Toronto Film Festival Features Top Film With Phoebe Legere Soundtrack

 Oh, CANADA! 

Phoebe Legere has 7 songs featured on the soundtrack of the brilliant new film directed by Gustavo Von Ha, "Everybody Dies Trying To Make a Masterpiece." 

The film is currently playing at the Toronto Global Film Festival. This image for the film shows

Phoebe shredding in the Yaddo music room, surrounded by laurels.

Said Phoebe Legere, "Gustavo has such style. Bravo darling!"

Tis' The Season To Be Thankful & Give A Little If You Can: We Suggest Phoebe Legere's Arts Education Nonprofit

Yes! This is the season of giving to those less fortunate! We are sharing the Facebook post from the EventHampton Account. The group covers happenings, history & more on the eastern end of Long Island, NY known as "The Hamptons."

Read what they had to say about Phoebe Legere's arts education nonprofit Foundation for New American Art: (it's easy to donate and no amount is too small!)

This is an organization we can all get behind during this season of thanksgiving and holiday celebration! Please consider supporting The Foundation for New American Art (FNAA), a nonprofit 501c3, founded by multidisciplinary artist Phoebe Legere.

Phoebe is one of our favorite artists and musicians and we've been fortunate to have her here for many seasons holding court at Bobby Van's, Stephen Talkhouse and fabulous events, parties and happenings.

Phoebe recognized a dire need to provide arts education programs to children living in low-income, underserved communities. Public schools in these districts suffer from having very low or absolutely no budgets for art/music/dance & theater curriculum.

Phoebe Legere’s FNAA provides after-school programs, creates and hosts festivals, concerts, and community gatherings, offers free music and art classes, invites caregivers and grandfamilies to participate in creative arts sessions, and offers a haven for children who have no opportunities to express their artistic selves.

Originally formed as the New York Underground Museum, a place to archive and showcase the works of both recognized and unrecognized artists of the community, the organization evolved into the Foundation for New American Art to offer much-needed cultural equity to children and families with little or no access to the Arts.

We are happy to be making a donation to support the wonderful programs of Phoebe's FNAA, and want to add that no amount is too small. Please give what you can to this noteworthy and much needed nonprofit organization. All donations are 100% tax deductible. https://www.paypal.com/donate/...

The Foundation for New American Art offers the promise that neglected neighborhoods can achieve a considerable degree of much needed cultural equity.

About Last Night: Phoebe Legere * Museum of the Moving Image: NYC * Toxic Avenger *

 From Phoebe Legere's Insta & Facebook:

Nov. 7 - 6:30 PM - "Mr. Melvin" - new edit - Museum of the Moving Image, NY

Tonight I sat in a movie theater hearing my own voice — song after song — rolling through those massive movie-house speakers. The film looked like a million bucks. It was prescient, funny, glamorous - environmental art - full of politics and hope! The whole theater was laughing and cheering. If I’d known how great it would look, I might have dressed up — but no one cared. They wanted my autograph anyway, even though I was wearing a T-shirt and sneakers.

It was one of those rare, surreal moments that make you stop and say: Well, that was a life worth living.

There is beauty in riding through the Rockies on a Dugati clinging to Hunter Thompson.

There is beauty in singing with a Tibetan shaman at 18,000 feet among wolves, yaks, and snow leopards.

And there is the quiet, aching beauty of reading the letters people wrote to me while I lay, with no insurance, dying in Beth Israel Hospital one hot New York summer.

But tonight was a different kind of beauty — sharp, cinematic, and strangely holy.

There I was at Kaufman Astoria Studios — the same place where my best friend, Dennis Daugherty, once worked as a maintenance man. Dennis died at 33. And now, all these years later, I found myself back in that same building, watching myself on the big screen as Claire — the girlfriend of Melvin, a maintenance man transformed into the Toxic Avenger, a hideously deformed superhero born from a vat of toxic waste.

Art reflecting life, life echoing loss — and out of both, somehow, #transformation.

On screen, there’s a line where Lloyd cites Greed as the reason they split one movie into two. And yes — Greed is probably why they didn’t use me for the voice of the Saturday-morning cartoon, even though they lifted my look, my costume, my voice, and my accordion — wholesale. It was a time when everyone wanted to exploit me, but no one wanted to develop me as an artist.

And yet, there it is — that moment when my Amazing Grace kicks in - just accordion and organ - and later my song Turn to Me, under the end credits. It sounds like a total banger — produced by Chris Lord-Alge, by the way, as poetic payback for screwing me out of a decent mix when I was on Epic Records.

So, to my "friends" who not only didn’t come, but who somehow feel superior to the Toxic Avenger:

You missed it. This new edit proves that Lloyd Kaufman is a shaman and genius.

Fortunately, I had my fans there.

Fans - God Bless them - they show up.

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